Welcome to Queer IRL, a monthly Autostraddle community photo series that gathers little clips of lesbian, bisexual, queer and otherwise-identified women, trans and non-binary folks, just living our lives in 2017.
I recognize that the guidelines for this gallery might have felt like a little too much for some readers, and I get that. Like what if you spend your Friday night in your kitchen or your bedroom?? Because you already sent those pictures, sooooo. Or maybe you’d have to announce to a whole group of people that you needed to take a quick pic for this community gallery on this website (and then define ‘community gallery’ and also answer “why is it called Autostraddle??”), and that just seemed like a lot. I get it! So just fair warning, this gallery is smaller than the last two were, but! It’s still everything good on this planet: us just being us, right now.
I hope you enjoy this journey through what we were all doing on a Friday night in the world! If you look through this today and wish you’d submitted, I’ll accept late submissions through Sunday night and update the gallery on Monday. (See details on the last page.)
Kells (and Melissa) / 38 / Librarian-ISH / Fermentation Lounge in Tallahassee, FL
“I’m hanging out with my best friend, my Person, the human I love most in this world – Melissa – and my pup MC Sprout, on my last Friday night before I move six hours away. This night would be fantastic even if we were just hanging out at home.”
Amy / 44 / Super Sculptor / An art gallery in Indianapolis, IN
“Spent my Friday night with my wifey and best friend, greeting and meeting people at my first ever art gallery show, where I was lucky to display some of my creations!! It was just a small local art center, but it is a small step towards my dreams!”
Rachel / 21 / My bedroom in London, Ontario
“Treat Yo’ Self night: I exfoliated, moisturized, changed my sheets, lit a candle, journaled, and called my girlfriend for a long-distance date night. I am the dark blob in the corner of the FaceTime screen, trying to get a good angle and hide my nudity.”
Nico SanFilippo / 30 / General Manager-Natural Alternative Food Co-op / My house in Luck, WI
“A typical Friday night with my dog Akila watching Netflix/catching up on emails. This was our first Friday night together after I spent a month backpacking and working on an organic farm in Europe.”
Katherine (right) / 25 / Computer engineer / Meow Wolf in Santa Fe, NM
“My girlfriend (left) and I spent our Friday night at Meow Wolf, a huge, intricate art installation in a former bowling alley in Santa Fe. We admired the art, and found several clandestine make-out spots inside.”
Chandra / 40 / English Instructor / My living room
“I teach a group fitness class at my gym on Friday nights, so this is me prepping for it with the help of my cat-friend Zuzu. I had to coerce him this time but normally he winds around my legs and yells at me or flops down right where I’m trying to step, so I figured he owed me one.”
Kris / 34 / Wedding and Event planner / My room in North Louisiana
“I took this picture on my way out the door to see The Pretenders and Stevie Nicks. Chrissie Hynde sang the Tom Petty part of “Stop Dragging My Heart Around” with Stevie, and I never knew I had wanted anything so badly.”
Alexx St. Jame / 40 / Recovering Academic / My living room
“My best friend and I having one of those perfect nights with lots of laughter and love, enjoying the pleasures of being with someone who’s known you through so much.”
P. / 21 / History student / Toulouse, France
“Still living with my parents, so Friday night is… quiet. It’s the only night where I have the time to really practice my trumpet. Then I read a feminist book with my Totoro cushion, which is the recipe for happiness.”
Ellie and Hannah / 21, 22 / Student, Receptionist / The living room of my messy student house in Birmingham, UK
“This Friday we spent the night at my university Spring ball. The photo was taken just before we left (we don’t tend to don fancy clothes of a normal Friday eve… but maybe we should). I’m not sure what warranted our reaction in the picture? I don’t think we’ll ever truly know, but we’re both having a GREAT time either way.”
Alie, Lindsey, Minkus, and Jess / 24, 24, 9 months, 25 / Weed Enthusiast, Entrepreneur, Chaos Monster, Entrepreneur/Dog Harness Fitter / Our living room in Philadelphia, PA
“We all have different work schedules, so it’s actually amazing that we were all sitting together when Lindsey’s alarm went off to remind us to take this picture. Our other cat, Tulip (4 years/Sass Master), was not interested in joining the picture.”
Shea, Ariel, Alex, Sarah (Kitchen Psychic), Emily, Ezra, Robin, Michael (reacting to s’mores Girl Scout cookies), Morgan / 23 – 27 / Texas Woman’s University Graduate Assistant and Editorial Assistant for Films for the Feminist Classroom (Ariel), Being cool and cute (Everyone else) / Pittsburgh, PA
Location: for an Autostraddle Camp reunion!
My occupation: Texas Woman’s University Graduate Assistant and Editorial Assistant for Films for the Feminist Classroom
Occupations of those pictured: Being cool and cute
“A-Camp’s 2016 Lion’s Club cabin thoroughly enjoying each other’s company post-Carol (dir. Todd Hayes) drinking game. Discussing Girl Scout cookies and how to look natural in pictures.
Before last June, most of us had never met. Now we semi-regularly travel around the country just to hang out with each other. One of these days we’ll all make it to Australia to visit our resident Lion Down Under.”
Allison and Marissa / Alicia Keys Concert at the Houston Rodeo in Houston, TX
“We are friends because we both listen to Buffering the Vampire Slayer. (Thanks Kristin and Jenny!) We went in matching outfits to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo together on a Friday night and cried when we heard Alicia Keys sing!”
Rachel / Managing Editor at Autostraddle / Kitchen in Milwaukee, WI
“This was around 6:30 pm; I was going to go to a queer zine exhibition but I didn’t know if anyone else I knew would be there and it was very cold and gray outside, so I stayed in my kitchen to drink some box wine and make cauliflower for dinner.”
Fruzsi and Kate/ 22 / Wood workshop organiser, Architect in training / Budapest, Hungary
“Post-date-night late night cereal. We watched Moonlight at the cinema and it was SO. GOOD. There was also gin, 10/10 evening.”
Siobhan / 29 / Writer / My living room
“I am literally taking a break from writing an Autostraddle article to send this in. As you can see from the picture this has been an interesting week.”
Cait / 27 / Paper-pusher at a physiotherapist company / Leeds, UK
“Here I am having a wild night looking at videos of Kate McKinnon on YouTube. I need help.”
Josie / 34 / Stage Manager / Chicago, IL
“I work in theatre so Fridays are work nights. Tonight I’m in my tech booth, rocking my girlfriend’s hoodie, drinking ginger pear tea, and getting ready to run the show for the second time today.”
Lauren, Maddie, Hannah, Mary / 22, 23, 22, 23 / Visual artist, cartoonist, poet, painter / Maddie’s house, post-sushi
“It was Maddie’s birthday celebration! We got drunk on sake and mimosas and watched dumb Youtube videos with our other friends.”
Lex / 18 / Part-time student, part-time nomad / UK
“This Friday evening is spent on a windy beach alone, collecting shells, crying in silence as the sun sets and my hands grow cold from writing in the North Sea breeze. She will never read the letter I wrote, but it is good to say goodbye.”
Kylie Sparks / 30 / Actor, writer / The Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles
“My partner Logan (who took this photo!) and I were celebrating one of my good friend’s birthday and I needed a good #onbrand photo to capture the evening. What better way to spend a weekend than drinking champagne and playing billiards?”
Heather Mangione (right, tank top) / 31 / Community Relationship Manager / Airspray Queer Dance Party at Electric Haze in Worcester, MA
“This is how my friends and I have spent the third Friday night of every month for the past three years. I host a queer dance party. On average, 200+ people attend! There is glitter. SO MUCH GLITTER.”
Laura / 26 / Grant writer, volunteer “comic book specialist” / Brooklyn, NY
“Pictured, left to right: Caroline, Isabel, Laura, Caroline, Saluda (the dog flopping around in a Hawaiian shirt on Caroline’s lap), Valerie (sitting in the front), Laura, Kate, Katie, Lydia. Yes, approximately half of us have the same names.
We have a recurring “Bad Lesbian Movie Brunch,” and this time we branched out and made it a Bad Lesbian Movie Night instead. We watched Out at the Wedding, which was extremely 2007 and worse than anyone remembered. But we also ate a lot of mac & cheese, drank some beers, cuddled under multiple sherpa-lined blankets, and generally had a great time regardless!”
Maggie McGill / 23 / Communications Coordinator, Fat Positive Youtuber / Washington DC
“I spent this Friday in the studio apartment of my first DC friend, a girl that graduated from my college the year before I started there. I met her through my partner! She makes us really delicious obscure cocktails and we just sit around and talk and drink and listen to records. I thought I wouldn’t find any friends after graduating, but I’ve definitely made one! Every night spent here is meaningful and makes me feel like I have my own little queer community.”
Steph Rivas, Yvonne Marquez, Gloria Delgadillo / 24, 26, 26 / Digital Designer; Autostraddle Senior Editor; Union Organizer / Urban Outfitters
“Steph invited us to go eat at Urban Taco, this upscale-ish restaurant that serves tacos. Since we’re self-identified bougie bitches when it comes to food, we said yes, because that place is fucking delicious. It was a pretty chill Friday night out and we were laughing and talking and Steph was telling us about how she had the perfect wind down the other night when she watched the Bachelor and put on an amazing face mask she bought at Urban Outfitters. It just so happened that Urban Outfitters is around the corner from Urban Taco so we decided to go after dinner to check out those face masks. We meandered all throughout the store looking at shoes and this fucking sick Selena shirt. I was slightly appalled but also really wanted it. I found a pink hat that I thought said “Pussy” but it actually said “Stussy” and then Gloria put it on, along with some fake glasses that made it look like she had a unibrow, and we were like YES!
There was a photo booth in the corner and of course we had to commemorate this Friday night out with our comadre. We squeezed into the tiny booth, Gloria had to sit on my lap and we paid $5 to take silly photos. We didn’t really like the photos the photo booth took so we took our own selfies with Steph’s phone. We bought our face masks and then went to Sprouts afterwards because Gloria wanted to make her own face mask. She heard on the internet you can mix activated charcoal and Elmer’s glue to make one. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t work, y’all and is bad for your skin. Gloria made her rogue face mask and Steph and I put on our 3-step black head nose strip remover while we listened to Bruno Mars’ “That’s What I Like” on repeat. It was the perfect Friday night.”
Jay/ 22 / My bedroom
“I spent this Friday alone reorganizing my bookshelves and putting some recent art up on my door/walls. Also trying to figure out what to do with all these toothpick flags (had queer Indigenous studies terms/concepts) left over from a baking project for a queer Indigenous gathering two days prior. It was lovely to take some time to reorganize and appreciate the things I had created lately.”
Alex / 33 / Librarian / Chicago, IL
“Beauty and the Beast. No, really. He’s a fabulous, kinky, Bear and I’m the beauty, obviously. This is how my Bestie and I celebrated his birthday because we are hip AF.”
Erin / 28 / Parent and student / Home base
“I had made plans to go to a concert tonight, mostly because I love the band but also because I wanted to send in a really exciting picture. But, I spent the gloriously warm day out biking with my kids and I also wrote a major final exam and I am so tired. So, here’s what I am actually doing tonight. This is what six people’s laundry looks like when it’s all folded at once for the first time in at least a week! Once it’s put away, I’m probably going to fall asleep reading this book.”
Mary / 22 / Gambier Island, BC, Canada
“My two favourite friends/coworkers/roommates and I are playing Arkham Horror (night 2!) because literally the only things we do is play board games and watch Canada’s Worst Driver. We’re accompanied by a puppy and a large bag of white wine, unfortunately not pictured.”
Lauren, Half Pint, Faith / 32, 4, 27 / Artist and draftsperson; Fur distribution expert; Lingerie fitting and sales / On a couch in Hamilton, ON, Canada
“With my wife and the heathenous quadriped. Just your typical wild Friday night, folding laundry and drinking tea. Except for Pint, who views laundry folding as a challenge wrt how much cat hair can fit on clothes before the humans even get to wear them. Does it make us sound less like boring old marrieds if I add that we were watching Caitlin Doughty talk about corpses on youtube? DOES THAT MAKE US COOLER, AUTOSTRADDLE?!”
Vicky / 27 / Marketing / Madrid, Spain
“My Friday nights are pretty similar, always awesome, and full of queers so I’ve put together a montage from the last month. We usually pre-drink at my house, take a mirror selfie in my hallway, then head out to Chueca where we take photos in the metro before going to our favorite girl club, sometimes via another bar. Anything after this is not fit to be seen on camera….”
Caissa / 27 / Production Assistant at Twin Cities PBS / PBS station in St. Paul, MN
“I work behind the scenes on a statewide public affairs show on Fridays, but I made a rare appearance in front of the camera for our online-only show. I took this after I played our show’s theme song on the piano – and yes, I did receive that award during my segment.”
Amelia / 21 / Illustration Student / Calder Printing Studio
“I spent Friday night printing with a few friends. I mixed ink, cut paper and in the end in the end ran my blocks through the press about 150 times. It was a productive night!”
Jackie Adkins, Pam Barrett, Lauren Oakes / 30, 25, 30 / Hair Stylist and Salon Owner; Writer with a day job; Salon Coordinator / Pub in Tremont, OH
“I, Pam Barrett, don’t normally do much for St. Patrick’s Day. This year I was gonna cuddle up in my apartment solo when Jackie asked if I wanted to meet up with her and Lauren. I started going to Jackie at her salon, Le Beau in Tremont, for my alternative lifestyle haircuts about a year ago and since then she and Lauren have become two of my closest friends and two of the best straight girl friends a lesbian could ask for! We get into some serious conversations, but laugh the whole time. It is truly wonderful.”
Nicole and Abby / 26, 25 / Reality TV Production Coordinator, Writers’ Assistant
“We typically spend our Friday nights winding down from the week by catching up on TV and movies with a fresh batch of homemade popcorn.”
Desiree / 29 / PhD student / My birthday dinner in Chicago, IL
“I spent this particular Friday evening saying goodbye to 28 (more like “FUCK OFF, YOU!”) and helloooooo to 29 with my dearest partnerbabe, purple hair, steak, and sundae service. You read that right: sundae service.”
Kay and Katie / 23, 24 / Writer and Barista, Florist / Home
“This night was the same as many nights. We hung out with our amazing friends, then came home, curled up in bed with “The Great British Baking Show,” and went to bed early because we both work on Saturdays (#RetailLife). Sorry for the cheese, but I’m glad we get to spend the rest of our lives like this, with fluffy TV and fluffy blankets and each other.”
Katie / 25 / Social Media Copywriter and Strategist / Imperial Theatre in New York, NY
“I’ve gotten really into going to Broadway shows by myself lately. I love theater so much and spend my first couple of years in Manhattan seeing very few shows, so I wanted to change that. While I’ve been burning through Playbills like nobody’s business, it’s taken me months to finally see Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, but I finally did and sprung for on-stage seating. And it was so worth it (although so much was happening that I almost missed the ladies making out feet in front of me during one part of the show).”
Katie, Vashti, and Whitney / 27 all around / Political organizers (Katie, Vashti); Art museum collections cataloger / ~Taco Bell~
“After a month long moving process, we’re all finally getting settled into our new apartment. So for our first roomdate, we had a wild Friday night cheating on our all carb diet at Taco Bell.”
Mei / 21 / Student / Baltimore, MD
“Friday nights are spent at my part-time job, working at a small, family-owned Taiwanese cafe. I rode the light rail home to an apartment that would be empty for an entire week, thanks to spring break (which is just how I like it). The rest of the night was lost to a four hour drawing frenzy, only after which I realized I had accidentally left a pot of water boiling on the stove the entire time.”
Megan and Laneia / Trader Joe’s Professional; Autostraddle’s Executive Editor / Target and Nordstrom Rack in Chandler, AZ
“Here we are running errands, sending pictures to each other of the things we’re most excited about. We didn’t end up buying either things — that dress was too long and we already have a water filter. After this we went to In-n-Out!”
Emily / 24 / Retired / Yurt
“Spent this Friday night at a Queer Body Love retreat with some rad and beautiful humans. Cried, talked about our feelings, held each other tenderly, was fed cake by naked queer women in a hot tub in the forest. Collectively made magic.”
Rose / 20 / Student / Security Glasgow
I had the most amazing night at Queeriosity, a first year fundraiser at Glasgow School of Art. Spent most of the night in the womb room, incredible yolic pink space with glitter and pink cushions everywhere. I love Glasgay.
Hayley and Sarah / 22 / “Figuring it out”; Tech Educator / Providence, RI
My girlfriend Sarah took this pic of me glamorously cooking pasta for us in my boxer shorts. #kitchentop
Amy / 38 / Trauma Surgeon / Chicago, IL
Hanging out in the call room waiting on the next trauma to roll in. This is how I typically spend my weekends, patiently waiting for tragedy to strike. My motto and defense of enjoying trauma: accidents are going to happen, it might as well come to me so I can take care of them!
Laura M / 30 / Engineer and Staff Writer at Autostraddle / Cambridge, MA
I’m crushing everyone as The Lost Vikings, my new favorite character(s) in Heroes of the Storm.
Sophia / 26 / Graduate student / Princeton, New York
These pictures are from two Fridays in the past month: one from the first Friday night I spent in my new place after moving (delighted with the built-in bed bookshelves, where I decided to shelve poetry), and another in New York. The first night I spent reading; the second I spent talking on the phone to my childhood friend, wandering, and seeing an off-off-Broadway show in which a grad school classmate was acting. Incidentally, said classmate was the first woman on whom I realized I had a crush – unreciprocated, of course.
Stephanie (right) / 23 / Grad student, Brunch host / Babes of Carytown, Richmond, VA
On the last Friday in March, one of my best friends Miña and I attended a dance party fundraiser for abortion access that was held at Babes (a 32 year old lesbian bar)! The organization, Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project (RRFP), which raises money to fund abortions in the Richmond community, does a lot of exciting fundraisers and is absolutely crucial in today’s political climate.
Megan / 23 / Costume Designer / Basement of an NYC Theatre
Here I am in basement, sewing away and making stage magic happen. I freelance for all things costumes and sometimes my only company is that lil mug of tea while I hear our tech rehearsals happening above me. I think I had been at that same makeshift sewing table for about 10 hours by the time this photo was taken but hey I love what I do so I’m still smiling about it!
Emma / 27 / PhD Candidate in Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience / Boro Bistro in London
I was in London for a family emergency but I had time to meet up with a friend I’ve known since we were 11, and we talked about my stress and worries that’ve been really bad recently. She was lovely. I have lived in lots of far-apart places and I’m a person with a small number of very close friends, so it’s hard sometimes to maintain those relationships but this meet-up was really restorative and healing for me. The café décor was also laughably weird which lightened the mood. (That is indeed a hand coming out of the air vent.)
Danika and Cass / 28, 27 / Scientist; Personal trainer / Chicago, IL
We spent our Friday night U-Hauling in matching snapbacks! …And explaining “U-Hauling” to our straight friends.
Vanessa / 28 / Writer, Nanny and Future full-time hiker / Portland, OR
As luck would have it, I happened to hold an Autostraddle meet-up on this particular Friday night! So that’s what’s happening here! A real live Auto meet-up! The sun was shining, which never happens in Portland, and it felt like spring was really here (it is, it is!), and we all hung out at the Florida Room eating greasy food and working on art projects and arguing over the taste of celery and if it’s appropriate to put ketchup on a tuna melt (celery tastes DISGUSTING and ABSOLUTELY NOT, for the record) and then by 8pm we were all heading home which is exactly when I like my Friday evening plans to wind down, to be honest. In short this was magical — I look forward to hosting more Portland Autostraddle meet-ups on Friday nights.
If you’re sending in late submissions this weekend, email [email protected], subj QUEER FRIDAY, with your high-res shot, name, age, occupation, and the location of your night, and include a blurb about what you’re doing.
April’s gallery theme will be announced on Wednesday, April 5 Monday, April 10!
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“was fed cake by naked queer women in a hot tub in the forest.”
I’m sorry what? Where do I sign up?
this is how i imagine everyone lives in portland. i don’t even know if this yurt is in portland, but it feels like it is, you know?
I’m so sick of living among the straights, please take me away to a Portland commune where this is common occurrence
yeah i would also love as much elaboration on this as possible
The yurt is in the santa cruz mountains in california, though it’s an honour to be seen as portland level queer. another highlight of the weekend was having glitter sprinkled on my butt by the Glitter Goddess and watching her glitter up everyone else on their body part of choice, and then all of us lying on the ground and moving/touching ourselves sensually. Also I mean there was a lot of emotional work and we built a super powerful container of seeing one another and holding space to be our truest queerest selves. Great weekend overall, highly reccommend. https://www.elizabethjcooper.com/retreat/#retreatinvite
Sounds so dreamy! I looked it up and I would looove to be a part of smthng like that! Unfortunately I’m currently quite far from west coast but if I’m ever in that area or smthng similar happens closer to me, that’d be great!
Also didn’t mean to downplay the emotional work part, that also sounds great, it just that that last sentence had so many of my favorite words at the same time hahaha. Fed.Cake.Naked.Queer. Women. Hot tub. Forrest. Magic ahhh
Emily, I love you so much and our wacky fucking emotional container and the yurts and the hot tub. Also, Autostraddle, I want you to know that I am also in this photo and wore the lazy femme shirt ON PURPOSE because I love you too.
Dani i SEE u in that lazy femme shirt!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️sorry i didn’t put everyones names, I got overwhelmed trying to figure out everyones age and occupation (i know your deep fears and desires but not your job titles)
THIS IS SO CUTE Y’ALL ARE MAJORLY CUTE MAYBE I WILL TAKE A PHOTO TONIGHT AND SEND IT IN BELATEDLY BUT SPOILER ALERT I GOT MY HAIR CUT YESTERDAY (LIKE AN INCH) AND I HATE IT AND THINK IT IS TOO SHORT (LIKE I ALWAYS DO) SO I MAY BE KIND OF POUTY IN THE PHOTO BECAUSE UGH, LONG HAIR FEMME HAIR CUT WOES YA KNOWWWWWW?
but for real @green this is just my fave thing on autostraddle right now, just the absolute best. i wanna stare at cute queers doing cute things JUST LIVING THEIR LIVES for forever and you are making that possible so THANK YOU <3
? YES PLEASE SEND A PICTURE OF YOUR LONG LUXURIOUS HAIR -that is only 1″ shorter than it usually is- PLEASE
As a very long haired femme I FEEL YOU! One inch feels like you’ve chopped your hair in half or something! But I-m sure you look fabulous :)
As a long-and-curly haired femme, the idea of having my hair an ENTIRE INCH too short is the stuff of my nightmares,so I totally feel you.
I bet you look supes de dupes cute though! :D
V MY ROOMATE HAS GORGEOUS FLOWY FAIRY LOCKS AND HE ASKED ME TO TRIM IT. I TRIMMED RIGHT WHERE I WAS TOLD TO, HE WHINED ALL OVER THE HOUSE ALL DAY! I HAVE LITERALLY WITNESSED THIS FEEL!!
This is so cute and good!! You are doing a major public service with these galleries, and I hope they never ever stop.
Also, I didn’t even think about any of the things in the intro paragraph (like, having to explain what this gallery/Autostraddle is to a group of people, etc. etc.), even though they are totally super valid. This makes me really happy, because just 5 years ago the idea of having my face and name in Autostraddle would have filled me with dread, but now in 2017 I was like, “hey guys, so we’re totally gonna take a pic for the queer on a friday night gallery, yeah? good, cool.” I didn’t even fully realize how super-gay my life had become!
shan’t stop, shon’t stop
Oh my word that concert sounds so great Kris, and that song? That sounds super awesome and gay!
Al, it was wonderful and so gay and Stevie sang “Landslide” at the very end of the show and I WEPT.
I can imagine. How are the Pretenders live?
Just spent 20 minutes zooming at every pictures on the wall of the image from Hungary !
Anyway, sending this picture on the gallery is a little step on my way to a public coming out (i’m not entirely out). I did not send my face (playing the trumpet = not sexy at all), but still, someone who knows me will recognize it so I was kind of scared when I sent it but now I feel strangely proud.
Playing the trumpet is so rad though
Yo P., as another queer History student from France: you can and should be proud <3 Also, I love your bookshelf (French editions!).
Congrats for that little step out of the closet! I shared the Queer in the Kitchen one on my Facebook as a kind of global coming out :)
solidarity from another queer history/lit student in France! (also: I’m from Toulouse! yay Sud-Ouest!)
& Beauté Fatale is an *amazing* book. still wondering why it hasn’t been translated yet into English, though.
Seeing my art on this page is even more exciting than seeing it in the gallery!!!
Thanks Laneia for helping me put another check mark of making dreams come true!!!
Amy, you looked so happy and proud in that photo! I loved it, congrats on the art show, your work is wonderful!
Awww thank you!!
LIONZ KLUB
Also aiofe!! Your rats! And the lighting in that photo! ? @ your whole self
I really like it when I see Queers In The Wild who also have pets that a cat would eat
Seconded Aiofe, I adore you cuddling your rat. Also you look really great for being ill!
Aoife*, dang i like triple checked the spelling and still fucked it up
As a different Aoife, this cracks me up so much. I get such entertainment from befuddling the fuck out of people with Irish names. But maybe that’s just cause I rarely have to encounter it IRL (perks of being in Ireland, where Aoife’s are so common that I was once one of four in a class of only 22)
I have Irish spellchecker on my phone bc I spell my middle name the Irish way online to keep employers from finding me and I thought it would save me and it did not
I’ve also misspelled my own first name though (Michael) so like this an across the board problem
Josie – what show are you running? Curious Chicagoer is curious :)
OHMYGOSH I am SO EXCITED to see rural northern Wisco represented!! Hi Nico in Luck!! I wanna come check out your co-op!
Come check it out if you are in the area! Its a cute little co-op.
I always tell myself I should send a picture and then I always forget about it until I see the Gallery published!!! If I miss the late submission opportunity I have no excuse… I visited my girlfriend in Houston recently and went to the Rodeo so got excited to see someone else doing that, I also went to watch Logan (it was hard to pick between Logan and Beauty and the Beast) and had game night last friday with my coworkers. So many picture opportunities lost!!! I guess I can send one of me right now…reading Autostraddle :P
Maggie in DC I think I have that same chambray shirt!!! It looks very cute on you!
Feeling very ~seen~ in terms of how many other people were in their apartment drinking (box?) wine!
+1 for sitting in my house hanging out by myself drinking wine
wow y’all are so fun!!!
Fun fun!! =D
What I got out of this gallery:
1) I’m definitely not living that 20s lifestyle anymore,
2) I’d like to leave the house occasionally,
3) Queers can do anything.
Such a lovely gallery! Would love to contribute in the future and have a human other than my partner in the photo with me.
I don’t think I’m even capable of expressing in words how much I love this series.
I adore these galleries So0o0oOOoo0o0ooO MUCH!!!!!!!!! When I realized this afternoon it’s march 31st I thought, QUEER IRL MUST BE OUT TODAY! Promptly stopped what I was doing to check and to my delight here it was. Huge smile on my face the entire time of scrolling through this, y’all are radiant and i love peeking into your lives.
Dear Erin / 28 / Parent and student / Home base;
Thank you for making me feel less alone with my constant Friday night laundering. I just want to make use of that off-peak hydro pricing in the evenings, y’know??
Xo, Faith/27/Hamilton. :P
All you Straddlers have such cool lives, damn it! I’m such a hermit. Thanks for letting me live vicariously through all your images! :D
I’m also a regular Friday night launderer, and I’m cool as fuck (one of these things is a lie). Laundry is valid as are you!
SO GOOD. WOULD SCROLL AGAIN. CANT WAIT TO SEE THE APRIL THEME <3
RACHEL! CAULIFLOWER DINNER & BOXED WINE. And Lex! My heart!
TBH I am in love with all of you!
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intern vashti!
Hi hello!
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I was feeling too insecure to click this gallery cos I thought everyone would be out getting drunk at a club/bar and chatting up cute women. Media version of ‘Friday night’. Tbh apart from the cute women (and it takes me a while irl to warm up to ppl) that isn’t what I want from Friday night but I feel odd about not doing as that’s basically media representation of a good Friday night.
So glad that I can relate to the ways some of you spend your night, makes me feel less alone & odd and more like there’s more ppl who enjoy themselves the same ways I do.
I hope all of you (inc everyone here) had great Friday nights.
Finally went through all the pictures while recovering from my Friday night (which was exactly as described in y comment about all my other Fridays haha)
So many of you having chilled Friday nights are making me consider that I should occasionally take a leaf from your books and do that, it looks cozy! :)
YOU’RE ALL SO CUTE JUST THE CUTEST I HAVE CRUSHES ON EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU AND WOULD BUY YOU A MILKSHAKE IF YOU WERE INTO IT.
Also Lauren & Faith- yes, so cool!! xoxo
I AM FAITH OF THAT LAUREN AND FAITH AND I WOULD ACCEPT THAT MILKSHAKE VERY MUCH!
MEI!
IS YOUR STOVE OKAY!? or like your house! Or are you just like, full of ambient steam and so your skin is super-hydrated?
the stove is ok! (besides the problems it already had before) mostly my concern was my roommate’s pot because all the water evaporated and left marks on the bottom hahahahaha…….but thankfully she doesn’t care, since she won’t need it after we graduate in a month anyway
This is hands-down one of the best things on the web. Also Chandra’s posing skills are top-notch.
I greatly appreciate this comment because it took me like 17 takes to get it right :)
thank you for your dedication to perfect posing! it is super impressive
This is probably one of my favorite things on Autostraddle, even if it made me a little sad.
Super Sculptor Amy, congratulations! Your contribution made me SO happy. You’re a fucking hero – go you for the show.
This continues to be my favorite thing! I would have joined in, but I knew the pic quality was gonna be soooo good, and my fri night is a selfie of me sleeping.
OMG IT ME! I’m so excited to be on the Autostraddle site in such an awesome way, you guys are all wonderful beautiful people!
Snufkin and Toffle are the best names for pet rats!
I love this!
Also Cait – your aesthetic is excellent, big fan.
I’m in love with u all k bye
Love, love, LOVE this!